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I've posted before on the weird relationship between neoliberal Democrats and big tech (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846361 https://news.ycombinator.c
by lasagnaphil 6y ago
I've posted before on the weird relationship between neoliberal Democrats and big tech (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846361). To make things short, the biggest flaw in his take was that things were not always like this, there was a time when the Democratic establishment were absolutely having a blatant love affair with SV tech (Remember Obama's campaign and how liberal media applauded his "progressive" use of Facebook and data analysis?). You have to look at the reasons why that relationship changed, and then everything becomes incredibly straightforward.
- menofsteel 6y agoPart of this is adopting a new narrative meant that they could write more stories, part of this is that some of the societal issues have become increasingly obvious, but I also believe that part of this tech's role in collapsing the media and inter-elite competition as well. So it's multi-faceted.